Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025

75 Power to disclose information about complaints: relevant professional organisations

(1) The 2007 Act is amended as follows.

(2) After section 51, insert—

“51A Power to disclose information about complaints: relevant professional organisations

(1) A relevant professional organisation may, if it considers it to be in the public interest, disclose information about any relevant conduct or regulatory complaint including—

(a) information that identifies or is likely to identity a person to whom the complaint relates,

(b) information about the investigation or resolution of the complaint,

(c) information about any outcomes resulting from the complaint.

(2) But information that, in the opinion of the relevant professional organisation, identifies or is likely to identify the complainer may not be disclosed under subsection (1) unless the complainer consents to its disclosure.

(3) In subsection (1), “relevant conduct or regulatory complaint” means—

(a) a conduct complaint that has been remitted to the relevant professional organisation under section 6(2)(a) (or that is treated as having been remitted to it under that section by virtue of section 33A(2)),

(b) a regulatory complaint that has been remitted to the relevant professional organisation under section 7A(2) (or that is treated as having been remitted to it under that section by virtue of section 33B(2)).”.